Fancy dress for freshers

Dressing to a theme can prove expensive, so what creative ways have you come up with to make an outfit on a budget? Or did you decide to go all out and buy that giraffe onesie?

Show us your fancy dress photos, or perhaps a short video of you as a dancing pirate. (If you’re sharing a video, please remember that for copyright reasons we can’t put up any videos that include music, unless you own the copyright.)

If you made the costume yourself, let us know how you made it and how much it cost you. We will feature the best in a gallery on the Guardian Students site.

This was for a Christmas themed fancy dress dinner at the start of December. Often a harbinger of the festive season is Coke's repeated use of the same catchy and slightly nauseating jingle, as a line of lorries arrive in town. The costumes are made up of a large box and a small box each. They took two days in total.

The dress is an from an old Halloween costume (fallen angel). The hair was a cheap wig that I cut and teased until it looked messy.. The scissor hands - I bought a pair of fingerless cycling gloves from poundland and cut out long pointy shapes from cardboard which I then spray painted silver and sewed them onto the gloves.

The make-up - you can't see close up but I actually managed to put 3d scars on my face. Simply by using eyelash glue! You paint a rectangle of the glue on your hand and just before it dries, roll it up into a sausage and use more of the glue to stick them on your face. Then just cover your face with white makeup and paint the middle of your lips black. I jazzed the costume up by adding a leather studded belt which I wrapped round my neck for effect. And then finish it off with a pair of knee high boots if u have them.

I took some stripy leggings and a black suit jacket which I sewed on some white strips to match. I then bought a long white wig out the pound shop and cut it and back combed it till it was messy. Then painted green paint around the edges to make it look mouldy. A white shirt and some old men's braces from the charity shop finished it off nicely.

Pillowcase cost me £1.95 from Tesco. Loads of colours available. Cut it up and get a friend to staple it to size around you. Front tassels are made by turning the pillowcase inside out and cutting up the flap. Tattoo drawn on with a brown pen. Brown liquid eyeliner would also work. Previous Pillowcase outfits include Tinkerbell and Dobby the House elf.